Today is cold and windy. It is almost a month since I took the image in the heading of the Bloodroot blossom. The Blossoms are gone and the leaves are large and wonderful. The same with my Wild Ginger. Unfortunately the weeds are growing also – perhaps I’ll get a chance this weekend.
Like a Dance
Being new to this blogging thing I wondered how these pages could be archived. Not just the archiving within the site but for all time or as long as technology would allow.
As I thought about this I thought of a friend and client who is a dancer/choreographer, Jeanne Ruddy. She is currently creating her latest dance, Breathless. Hours and hours, days and days, weeks and weeks – even months and months go into the creation and practice of a new dance – by many, many people. And the result is over in a short period of time. It may be repeated and it may be recorded. But the actual act of the dance it’s self is a moment in time.
It seems to me that a web experience is like that. One may plan what they wish to say or it may be off the top of their head but the experience and interaction with others is in the moment – fleeting and not meant to be captured.
spring 2005
My back garden is to be the main subject of this journal. It is mostly a sample dye plant garden with a few herbs, some lettuce and tomatoes, a small deck area for our two blue chairs and a bird bath. The deck area is about 8′ X 8′ and can be moved each year to rotate our “crops”. I figured if we came home from work tired at the end of a long day, took a drink into the garden with our chairs and saw weeds we might pull some. It works—sort of!
This spring I have moved the Bedstraw to the other side of my bird bath to give my Madder plants more space. Both plants give a red dye. According to my books Madder likes compost, manure, lime and potash. It likes to be 18-20 inches apart well weeded and mulched.
I also weeded around my Wild Ginger and Bloodroot. The Bloodroot was just flowering and the flowers were opening as the day went along. I kept stopping to sketch and photograph them—one of the images appears at the top of this site. (I bought the Bloodroot and Madder several years ago from Well Sweep Herb Farm.)
Purpose:
I create web sites and have a client who needs a blog, so… I need to learn to create blogs, so… what better way to learn than to create one for myself.
I wanted a subject for my blog, so… I chose my garden where I like to be when I’m not at the computer, so… here it is.
Enjoy.
